Meanings
verbovercalculate (third-person singular simple present overcalculates, present participle overcalculating, simple past and past participle overcalculated)
present singular third person overcalculates · participle present overcalculating · participle past overcalculated · past overcalculated
- To calculate as being greater than is actually the case
Meanwhile, Mr. Blair began, as anxious people will do, to overcalculate the lapse of time.
1822, John Gibson Lockhart, Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair, Chapter XI, page 135Synonyms: exaggerate, overestimate, overstate
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo calculate as being greater than is actually the case
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Germanic*uber
- Old Englishofer-
- Middle Englishover-
- Englishover-
- Englishcalculate
- Englishovercalculate
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